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What do you see in these photos? A delicious-looking Taiyaki sweets, an expensive vase, an antique incense burner, a worn-out monkey wrench, a beetle incense holder, a sharp chisel, a Damascus steel knife, and bonsai scissors...

However, these are all imitations made of Urushi. These are a number...

"Kyu-shitsu", which refers to all types of Urushi lacquer coating, is the origin of Wajima-nuri, which began with plain practical lacquerware, and is an honor for the skills that have been accumulated over a long period of time. On the other hand, with the modernization of crafts, it has been establ...

Venice Oriental Museum Seminar “Overview of Japanese Lacquer Art”

Urushi Workshop: Simonetta Capetta, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Urushi LAB and Guild LacArt, Milano, Italy.

Urushi Workshop: Nathalie Posson, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Royal Antwerp Academy of Arts, Belgium and NPO De Kunstkliniek ‘URUSHI ~An Introduction in practice~’

We practiced the Roiro-nuri technique by applying a series of processes from the foundation layers to the coati...

Kintsugi Workshop: Sarah Benrubi, Kenta Takeshige, Delphine Mesmaeker

A workshop in collaboration with the Faculty of Conservation-Restoration of Art Works and the Faculty of Ceramics at La Cambre National School of Arts, Brussels Belgium

A Kintsugi workshop using lacquer was organized as part o...